Show LATE SENATORS SENATOR'S WRITINGS BARED Started Autobiography to Pay Tribute to Parents DES MOINES la Ta Aug 3 By 3 ByTho The 1110 Associated A Press Press A desire to pay a tribute to his parents prompted Senator Albert B Cum Cummins mins nuns to start an autobiography th tue Introduction ot of which was be- be begun begun be begun gun shortly before his bis death here herel l Friday In the manuscript now In lit pos pos- possession pos possession session of ot hIs hij daughter Mrs lIol Its lis A Rawson of et o Des Moines the senator wrote I was born on the tho fifteenth day dayot dayot ot of February 1850 In a respect respect- respect able able log house about a and anda anda anda a halt cast east ot or Carmichael Green county Pennsylvania and lived there until the sixteenth day of ot August 1869 My father tather Thomas Thoma Layton Cummins was a carpenter the the hardest working and most upright man I have ever known It was to render II a a tribute to my father tather and mother mether that moved me meto meto meto to write something about my lire life and whatever gratification I tell feel In this will chiefly to make those who come after oller me acquaint acquaInt- acquainted ed Cd with my father and mother With only a few tew paragraphs com corn complete complete the manuscript which was to 10 have o grown Into a I large volume Is now a 0 t family treasure |